[Samba] Backup software

[Charles Marcus]

Ahhh. My bad.

Yes, now that I think about it this is a much bigger bear than I first
thought...

Will look forward to any solutions that are forthcoming...

Charles

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Freemyer [mailto:freemyer at NorcrossGroup.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 4:19 PM
> To: Charles Marcus; samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: re[2]: [Samba] Backup software
>
> Charles,
>
> I'm not a Samba expert, but I have been researching how best
> to back up Samba shares, especially as it relates to ACLs.
>
> To use ACLs with Samba, I believe it is best to have a
> Filesystem that supports ACLs.
>
> I only know of 2 that do:  "ext2/ext3 with the ACL patch" and XFS.
>
> From what I understand, it is preferred to backup "ext2/ext3
> with the ACL patch" with star.
>
> And it is preferred to backup XFS with xfsdump.
>
> If you don't use a filesystem that understands ACLs, then
> Samba maintains all the ACL info in a common file.
>
> You as the administrator are responsible for creating a
> backup mechanism that captures the Samba ACL info.
>
> That is easy if you are happy with doing a full share
> backup/restore, but if you want to be able to do individual
> file saves/restores, then you have to have some way of
> saving/restoring the ACL data on a file by file basis.
>
> === Backing up a Samba client
>
> This was the original need, but from what I understand
> smbmount does not handle ACLs, so there is no way to get the
> remote ACL info. and back it up.
>
> Greg
>
>
>  >>  I think XFSdump does on XFS filesystems...but I could be wrong.
>
>  >>  Charles
>
>  >>  > -----Original Message-----
>  >>  > From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org
>  >>  > [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]On
>  >>  > Behalf Of Greg Freemyer
>  >>  > Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 2:20 PM
>  >>  > To: ACEAlex; samba at lists.samba.org
>  >>  > Subject: re: [Samba] Backup software
>  >>  >
>  >>  >
>  >>  >
>  >>  > To the best of my knowledge their is not an OpenSource backup
>  >>  > method that will backup the ACLs on the client.
>  >>  >
>  >>  > If your clients are using FAT, then you have no problems.
>  >>  >
>  >>  > If they are running NTFS on the clients, then you have ACLs
>  >>  > to worry about, and you will have to decide if you need the
>  >>  > ACLs backed up up or not.
>  >>  >
>  >>  > i.e. ACLs are the NTFS security info.
>  >>  >
>  >>  > Note: Samba ACLs can be backed up if you ensure you are
>  >>  > running the right backup software like star or xfsdump.
>  >>  >
>  >>  >  >>  Hello
>  >>  >
>  >>  >  >>  Im planing on doing an open source software that handels
>  >>  > backups. The
>  >>  >  >>  purpose is to backup clients in an nt domain. I know
>  >>  > that there are
>  >>  >  >>  comercial software out there but i want to do it the
>  >>  > right way "open
>  >>  >  >>  source
>  >>  >  >>  :)". Oki here is my plan
>  >>  >
>  >>  >  >>  1. On every client i have a user that has read access to
>  >>  > the whole system
>  >>  >  >>  drive. That user and password is stored on the backup
>  >>  > server aswell.
>  >>  >  >>  2. The user will use a web interface and from that
>  >>  > request a backup of the
>  >>  >  >>  system.
>  >>  >  >>  3. The backup server will store the request and later
>  >>  > that night it will
>  >>  >  >>  use
>  >>  >  >>  samba to mount the client drive and make the backup. Im
>  >>  > planing on using
>  >>  >  >>  gzip or bzip on every file in the system so that you
>  >>  > easily could recover
>  >>  >  >>  files. The files will be stored on cheap ide harddrives.
>  >>  > You will also be
>  >>  >  >>  able to filter out files that you dont need to backup
>  >>  > "word.exe, swapfile
>  >>  >  >>  etc"
>  >>  >
>  >>  >
>  >>  >  >>  Now i wounder if there are any other people out there
>  >>  > that already has
>  >>  >  >>  done
>  >>  >  >>  it. Is it a great ide or not?
>  >>  >
>  >>  >  >>  /Alexander
>  >>  >
>  >>  >
>  >>  >
>  >>  >
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Greg Freemyer
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Deployment and Integration Specialist
The Norcross Group
www.NorcrossGroup.com